The surprising election of U.S. President-elect Donald J. Trump touched off numerous presuppositions about the future of international diplomacy and the foreign policy of the United States.
The topic of space ...

At the time of publication, there were conflicting reports on whether or when there will be a NASA transition team and, if so, how many individuals will compose such a team. On the assumption that some sort of ...

In the United States, the siren whispers of NewSpace seem already to have fallen short of the original intent. In Europe, 74 consecutive successful Ariane 5 launches and the Rosetta mission are proof that solid...

A strange thing happened in July when the U.S. Navy’s MUOS-5 satellite was on its way to geosynchronous orbit. The thruster it was using to raise its orbit stopped working unexpectedly. It’s never good when a p...

The U.S. National Intelligence Council, which provides DNI James Clapper with long-term strategic analysis, was asked in 2012 to come up with possible black-swan events that could have a crippling impact on the...

A grand challenge for the U.S. space program
Over the last several months, U.S. voters have had the chance to examine the views of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump on a wide range of issues. Thanks to the init...

We are coming up on a year since President Obama signed the Spurring Private Aerospace Competitiveness and Entrepreneurship (SPACE) Act into law. The SPACE Act aims, in part, to “promote the right of United Sta...

Space Command is shedding more light on Hyten’s vision. But with the boss moving on, what happens now?
Officials from U.S. Air Force Space Command have spent the past five months meeting with more than 700 me...

When we heard about the July 18 debris-generating event involving DigitalGlobe’s WorldView-2 commercial imaging satellite, we immediately launched our own investigation. Over the past year, Applied Defense Solu...

Four years ago, I wrote an in-depth report called “Going Blind” on how the United States was in danger of losing its ability to “see” in space, a capability known as space situational awareness (SSA). “Going bl...

Reliable and responsive space situational awareness (SSA) services are needed more than ever before, and the need is growing every day. This is for reasons that all are now very familiar with, namely the incre...

The fixed satellite services industry has been an anomaly in the communications sector, with stable, even increasing, pricing while prices for other forms of bandwidth fell dramatically.
Stability allowed sate...